Quotes About Advancement

Ours is a time of space telescopes, electron microscopes, supercomputers, and the worldwide web. This is not a time for parsing the lessons given to a few goatherds, tentmakers, and camel drivers. Rev. Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution!

I have known Nature. I have known Civilization. Civilization is better.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

You have greater access to sanitation and clean water than ever before. To privacy, leisure, and artificial light. To transportation, communication, and computation. The list goes on and on.

And while humanity is still barbaric in many ways, we've come a long way since Nazi Germany.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

A war for technology supremacy.

Runaway biological or electronic evolution that led to a singularity event.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." ?—Carrie Snow

These struggles required teamwork, innovation, and advancement.

We've all heard Arthur C. Clarke's famous quote by now," said Hoyer. "It's become so common, I think they're printing it on fortune cookies. But it's also true." "You mean, 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'?" said Reed.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." —Carrie Snow "Beam

Computers were once bigger than houses. When this was the case, abuse was virtually nonexistent. A current example is the large hadron collider. We certainly don't have to worry about one of these being misused, simply because there is only one of these.

By just about every measure, America is better, and the world is better, than it was fifty years ago, thirty years ago, or even ten years ago.

The progress of your technology has been exponential. And the exponent itself has been growing.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

As it is in politics, so it is in private and public companies. Fast-tracked diversity may promote the people who were nearest to their destination already. And very often these are the most privileged people of any group – including their own.

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.

Growth is good, at least for those doing the growing.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. —Charles Kettering (1876–1958), American inventor, holder of 300 patents, including electrical ignition for automobiles There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. —Thomas Reid (1710–1769), Scottish philosopher

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I got new shit, Im getting better still.